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1000W. Harris recommended a 800W I think on his site, and i just went a bit bigger JIK. I will post pics later tonight. Should have taken them earlier.

I will make another with wife's inverter (I bought 2, one for each vehicle, 2 is 1, 1 is none) and start a thread with all pics along the way.

We also have a small generator, but this is quiet and took notes from the posts other TSPers had on going through Sandy. What worked well, what didn't and what whey would do differently. Really good posts from some of the guys out there.

"I went down Virginia, seekin' shelter from the storm.Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain."

So I put it all together tonight sorry for poor photo quality. I have 10 outlets ready at any time. Big thanks goes to Steve Harris. I had the pieces in my head and it all came together after hearing him speak. Mobile power. Total cost around 150. After battery dies, I just connect to cars for power.

on top of the day job i have some side work in the area that got flooded from hurricane issac. finished the demo today. just gotta wait for him to pressure wash the house so we can start putting in the romex. i may have 2 more houses coming up as well. hurricanes are great for side work

Ground up two more deer, and waiting for hubby to get home (he's on his way) so we can get some more of the new goat fencing put up before the rain sets in. Although I hate that we probably won't get as much done as oldest son is pulling a late shift, and next oldest son is helping a friend get his barn roof done, so we're two bodies short right out the gate, and then I had to go and pop a rib out again, plus broke a toe the other day (it's still swollen and black/blue to almost the middle of my foot) and so I'm still having to walk a bit gingerly. Oh well...C'est la vie.

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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."--Mark Twain

I rotated the gasoline stores and picked up a few extra LTS items at the grocery store on sale.

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"I went down Virginia, seekin' shelter from the storm.Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain."

I didnt exactly "buy" anything or do any standard preps today... but me and my GF decided to stay another year in our tiny apartment to save money and pay off debt. We had planned for a while to move somewhere bigger (and more expensive), but decided today it was a smarter idea to redecorate as best we can and stick it out for at least another year.

Just decided to pull the trigger on a Big Buddy heater from CostCo. One of the better prices at 119. I am not sure if it is the latest generation, but I do need to get some additional heat in the garage during the winter when I decide to work on the lathe. This hardware will work as a short term emergency heat source. It has the standard built in carbon monoxide sensor, so while it's safe - I would never leave the area or sleep with the h/w running.

I already have a few packages of the smaller tanks for Big Buddy Heater, now to find some quality adapters / fuel filter for the 30 gal tank(s) I keep outside for my BBQ.

Made a trip to the 99 cent store and picked up some first aid supplies for the bag, along with some misc stuff I thought might be useful.

Since my most likely problem is going to be a layoff in a couple of months, saving money is my big thing. I also cancelled a bank account that wasn't doing anything but costing me $5 each month and cancelled my gym membership that I never use.

Hopped onto 13 skills and have the ball rolling, met with some nice folks coming to visit their pup for the first time and talked for two hours about all sorts of things including how the got out of CA and THEY asked about prepping and i enjoyed indulging! Made a new video for you tube about incubating duck eggs(uploading now,be done by the morn lol) got some serious winter cleaning done went and checked on the tank deicer / bred goats.. and now that we got all of the straw raked up we put all new straw down..

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"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Will do, Hootie. As soon as I've actually done anything, I'll start an NVIS thread over at the ham board. Been in the middle of this in-town move for the last couple of weeks, been eating all of my time. But that's winding down now.

I did some YouTube research on dressing and butchering deer, put some mineral oil-coated eggs away in dry storage and experimented with my first loaf of beer bread. As a fledgling hunter who's never intentionally killed anything bigger than a yellowjacket, I have to say the field dressing video was pretty intense! I was uneasy (and a little queasy) at the beginning, but by the end of the video the predator in me was ready to take on the challenge. If the 20-year-old me could see me now!

nelson96

Dehydrated another batch of elk jerky while we were sleeping last night. It's coming out a little at a time this morning as it's done. I tweaked my recipe from last time and oh man this is getting good.

Picked up almost 400 lbs of grass-fed beef and pastured pork from a local farm. Going to learn to cure/smoke/dehydrate!

Nice... and thanks for supporting your local farmer.

When you start to smoke/cure, go to a large animal vet and pick up bovine spinal needles. We had this guy up in Canada buy them all the time and I knew he didnt have cattle. I asked him and he used them for injecting brine next to the bone in his hams.

Cedar

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"Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again." - Jean Luc Picard

"A person who works with his hands is a laborer, A person who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman, A person who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist."

Last night I hosted an evening get together with two families of preppers...and signed up for 13skills. Today was a lazy day for me, and I spent much of it perusing the new seed catalogs that arrived via the post yesterday and planning my gardens. DH, along with three DSs, went out and cut a fence line through the woods for the new goat fencing. It was a bit slow going as they decided to cut some of the trees into firewood as they went along.

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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."--Mark Twain